Festo BionicSwift 2021 

It just makes you realize how amazing real birds are...

Fiesto as always shows that engineering is an art.... Beautiful design... Fantastic execution...

Sehr gut, ausgezeichnet! FESTO bringt immer wieder intelligente Lösungen. Wir sind wirklich froh ihre Komponenten zu verbauen - PULVERMEISTER Typ3.

Wahnsinn! Durch die Nutzung der flexiblen „Federn“ bleibt der Rumpf wahrscheinlich ruhiger als beim „alten“ Festo-Vogel. Wenn ich noch am Beginn meines beruflichen Wegs stünde, würde ich mich mächtig anstrengen, bei Festo zu arbeiten! Daumen hoch von mir!

Absolutely LOVE IT! I have 4 Ornithopters already and is Fascinated with them. Love to have this 💙

this is beatiful, i really appreciate what you guys are making, i actually want to work at festo

That's so beautiful!. The perfect balance between art and technology ⚖️

This felt like a CGI! So well made!

I get goosebumps. This is so cool. I only regret that I am a Bosch fan.

That's a great innovation. The next step is to make an actual body like a bird

Ich finde bionic von Festo echt klasse! Wenn ich erwachsen bin werde ich mich vielleicht bei euch bewerben. Das ist echt der Hammer 👍🏻😊

I'd like to see this developed further, where the BionicSwift would be able to land on 'legs' and then take off again from those 'legs' with only its 'wing power' and perhaps assistance from said 'legs'...

the individual feathers is amazing, usually it's a solid wing 0:18 boop

*_Festo's bionic robots are so cool!! The future comes!_* ❤️❤️❤️

Maybe one day , hopefully soon we will all be able to simply wear a carbon fiber jacket equipped with wings and also fly away to our wanting destinations!?

Festo sollte sich überlegen in den Modellbau Markt mitzumachen

1:28 that drop though...wooh!

Beautiful beautiful beautiful

It's a cool flyer. Had one of those birds when I was a kid, a 2$ chinese plastic thing running on a rubber band. Still think the term bionic should be used for biologic-electronic/mechanic hybrids, though. After all there's very few things we invent, nature hasn't already done, so it could all be called bionics the way you use the word..

Started with carrier birds, went to drones, now back to birds. lovely.

breathtaking!

It looks amazing

Unfassbar!

Amazing!!!

So. My question is. Can we modify this exponentially larger to support a human? Imagine that. Controlling a robotic bird flight suit. Or even just being strapped to one. What I read is an average human would need a 21 foot wingspan to fly. What if we increased that, and adjusted some weight to make it accurate to the weight distribution of an actual bird? I'm not certain how many people would be wing to test something like this, but I for sure would

Everyone is commenting on it being a "perfect blend between art and technology". An amazing feat yes, but this is biomimicry. Nature did it first, did it best. But serious kudos to Festo.

I really appreciate the effort the engineers put into the project May I know the material used in the place of feathers

Ржу не могу просто😂😂😂😂

Wollte Festo den Vogel nicht als Baukasten anbieten? Was ist daraus geworden?

A few years ago Air Hogs came out with a pretty nice ornithopter, that had decent control authority. It was dubbed the Firewing, and it was very characteristically similar in flight to this aircraft. Doesn't seem like there have been too many advancements in this tech since them.

looking at the wings, i was wondering if it would be better to have the feathers so that the topmost feather is at the wing tip while this is the opposite. made a quick image search and looks like that at least with real birds, it is so.. maybe because their support structure for wings is a bit different?

I like how they implemented glider function. I have never seen anything in other bionic birds. It seems pretty natural. The most sadnesses fact it is doomed to fly into wireless beacons cage because nor attitude sensors nor surface recognition system are able to operate as fast as drone behave, I guess.

I'd actually like to hear how they really sound

That's unbelievable and super cool.

Me hubiese encantado trabajar en una empresa como Festo, lástima que acá en Latinoamérica no haya un nivel de tecnología como en Europa y EEUU, acá los empresarios crean supermercados y malls , su visión a futuro no les da para más.

They are perfect!

Wo bekomme ich so ein Festo - Vogel her? Liebe Grüße aus Esslingen

With new canopy..next time with hummingbird please...

Love from India ❤️❤️

Looks so much more fun than drones

How heavy is a robot bird allowed to be in order to still be able to fly?

now, what can a superintelligence achieve? A bacon and egg roll

great job FESTO

What if they make a larger scale wings and strap onto human and see if we can fly with those wings or not

You ready to fly? A human will hold your hand, And you will take off and fly forever.

That's actually so cool

Hi Festo , do you have any papers about the wonderful bird?

looks like a very clumsy bird. but i think it has a lot of potential

If that thing can have wings can you make so human sized ones, I would like to fly also

That's reality cool, wow

This is being called a robot on Facebook. Is it a robot, or is it controlled by a person?

I am thinking to invest in these kind of products

You can't keep helping the military with this, if you love birds please understand the development of this for the military will force people to EXTERMINATE birds to EXTINCTION as a matter of survival

On Application... what can we use this for when we already have drone?

Festo could make the falcon AND the winter soldier.

"Do you like our owl?"

Fascinating😳

Are these available in market?

I will sell my soul for one of these

Hi, my suggestion maybe the elictric zoo park or something like that.... 🤔 Space zoo park or jurassic space park, ex.... might be funny.... If need AI robot or oooztek module, I had Moonly, snowy and mita.....

superb.

Cool🔥🔥🔥

Could you make a large one that a human could ride on?

Where can I buy one?

How to make this

BIRD VS DRONE BATTLE!

Cleaver , advanced recharge battery 🔋 cell and maybe camo solar panel for landing then recharge ?

Very inspiring. Hire me!

I believe flight is understood.

Как веер собран? От тела или к телу?

Is it for sale tho

we already have birds

Can you please shair it's making video

Nun eine caddx Ant Lite plus eine nano vtx rein in den Kopf und dann fpv fliegen :)

I kinda want one

Birds Aren't Real. Proof right here.

Is it possible to buy one of these at any point?

Let’s see if people can design robotic birds that you ride on like any aircraft similar to what we see in movies like Avatar where the Navi ride on those dragon-like creatures known as banshees

Interesting... robotic birds are born in captivity...

今度は雀の大きさか、人を乗せて飛べる大きさの鷲を作って欲しいなぁ……

fly the bird into a jet engine i dare you.

I bet that this was a composite of many takes spliced together and the BionicSwifts were not nearly as smooth and flawless in flight as this commercial makes it appear. Some images seem more cgi than real.

охеренно!!!

Ornithopter 👍

We need a Camera on them

👏👏👏👏👏

akon gihap energy

..if anyone makes it based on my thoughts just send me the check anonymously ,, if those bionic wings can be made on that body of a bird , why can't it be made on a ××× (bigger scale) for human sizes / weight sizes computerized ,, thus once we get inside the body / cavity we / human subjects can also freely fly just about any where ..!?

Proof that birds are not real!

Wow!

DEAR;FESTO YO QUIERO SER VOLUNTARIO PARA PROBAR LAS...(ALAS)✓QUE VAYAS ASER PARA LOS HUMANOS

Westworld here we come

and now build a flying suit form humans please🤞😉

This proves that birds aren't real

enough with flying, how about make them land and fly again. :D

anyone who says birds are robot spies show them this video

Now just do the exact same design but make it massive, twice the size of a human. If you don't, I will. Hurry up and get over to DARPA with this. You have no idea how much law enforcement, 0:26 search and rescue, and military need autonomous and even voice controlled smart transportation. Like I said, if you don't I will. The largest flying dinosaur, or more accurately, the largest flying animal ever known, was Quetzalcoatlus northropi. This pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period had an estimated wingspan of 10 to 12 meters (33 to 39 feet), making it the largest flying creature in history. Quetzalcoatlus belonged to the azhdarchid family, known for their long necks and legs, and it stood as tall as a giraffe when on the ground.There has been some debate about whether Quetzalcoatlus was capable of sustained flight due to its massive size. Some studies suggest it could fly using thermal soaring, while others propose that it might have been primarily terrestrial, using short bursts of flight. Despite these debates, it is widely regarded as the largest flying pterosaur. It's weight was an astonishing 500 lbs

It's not passable as a real bird until it smacks hard into one of those windows.

Can Festo make a Dragon?

If this machine like this from dune then it can fly vertically.